From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 5 21:54:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03113 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03108 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:53:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smp@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA19297; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:53:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710060453.WAA19297@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Alex cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/bin/sh Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1plus Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb Makefile src/lib/libpcap Makefile src/libexec/ftpd Makefile ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Oct 1997 21:40:17 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 22:53:47 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Steve Passe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Three questions. > > > What about making that (-pipe) a standard option for all of the Makefiles? > > > Also, has anyone looked at making the kernel build src/sys "parallel-make" > > > safe? How many jobs -jX would provide the best speedup on a UP system? > > > > the kernel build has been parallel safe for a long time. -j4 is about right > > for a UP system last time I checked. > > No. It's not. It blechs on the pcm driver, and I think the ahc driver. > Perhaps something else too. don't know about pcm, but ahc is no problem, I've been doing it for months: 259 # config GENERIC Removing old directory ../../compile/GENERIC: Done. Kernel build directory is../../compile/GENERIC 260 # cd ../../compile/GENERIC 261 # make depend && time make -j12 ... loading kernel rearranging symbols text data bss dec hex 1888256 77824 359752 2325832 237d48 128.03s real 157.32s user 76.94s system -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD